Biography: life and films
Anthony Perkins was an American actor. He was born in New York, USA on 4th April 1932 and died in Hollywood, USA on 12th September 1992, aged 60.His best films as an actor include George Cukor's The Actress (1953), Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Psycho (1960), Anatole Litvak's Goodbye Again (1961), Le Couteau dans la plaie (1962) and Orson Welles's Le Procès (1962).
Anthony Perkins appeared in 43 films, directed 2 films and scripted 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Sidney Lumet (2 films), René Clément (2), Claude Chabrol (2) and Anatole Litvak (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (25 films), Thriller (17), comedy (7), romance (6), Horror (6), Western (4), crime-thriller (3), War (3), comedy-thriller (2), comedy-romance (2), comedy-drama (2), Fantasy (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Anthony Perkins over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
The Actress (1953) [a]
Friendly Persuasion (1956) [a]
Fear Strikes Out (1957) [a]
The Lonely Man (1957) [a]
The Tin Star (1957) [a]
Desire Under the Elms (1958) [a]
The Matchmaker (1958) [a]
This Angry Age (1958) [a]
Green Mansions (1959) [a]
On the Beach (1959) [a]
Psycho (1960) [a]
Tall Story (1960) [a]
Le Couteau dans la plaie (1962) [a]
Le Procès (1962) [a]
Phaedra (1962) [a]
Le Glaive et la balance (1963) [a]
Une ravissante idiote (1964) [a]
The Fool Killer (1965) [a]
Pretty Poison (1968) [a]
Catch-22 (1970) [a]
WUSA (1970) [a]
La Décade prodigieuse (1971) [a]
Quelqu'un derrière la porte (1971) [a]
Play It As It Lays (1972) [a]
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) [a]
The Last of Sheila (1973) [w]
Lovin' Molly (1974) [a]
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [a]
Mahogany (1975) [a]
Remember My Name (1978) [a]
North Sea Hijack (1979) [a]
The Black Hole (1979) [a]
Winter Kills (1979) [a]
Double Negative (1980) [a]
Psycho II (1983) [a]
Crimes of Passion (1984) [a]
Psycho III (1986) [a,d]
Destroyer (1988) [a]
Lucky Stiff (1988) [d]
Edge of Sanity (1989) [a]
Der Mann nebenan (1991) [a]
Los gusanos no llevan bufanda (1992) [a]
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